Quotes about discontent

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be content in another.

— Aesop

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

— Albert Camus

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

— Thomas A. Edison

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

— Benjamin Franklin

Let thy discontents be thy secrets.

— Benjamin Franklin

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

— Benjamin Franklin

The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.

— Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Discontent is something that follows ambition like a shadow.

— Henry H. Haskins

Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.

— Robert Herrick

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

— Eric Hoffer

Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things.

— Chinese Proverb

If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.

— David Rockerfeller

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.

— James Thomson

Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there

— Henry Vaughan

The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

— Oscar Wilde